Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 05:53:16 -0700 From: Brad Davis <so14k@so14k.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: djbdns Message-ID: <20040108125316.GA50144@mccaffrey.house.so14k.com> In-Reply-To: <200401071326.25126.freeman@cs.dal.ca> References: <AJENJFOLCLAHHIIGCCHNMEFDMGAA.admin-lists@wolfpaw.net> <20031211213245.I61349@vette.gigo.com> <200401071326.25126.freeman@cs.dal.ca>
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Note that even the BIND developers admitted that it is recommended to run a seperate instance of BIND for publishing dns records and another for a cache.. DJBDNS just forces you to do this :) Brad Davis DJBDNS user for 6 months On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:26:21PM -0500, Kenny Freeman wrote: Content-Description: signed data > My experience with bind has been less than fun - a pain to maintain with all > of these security fixes and also the file format is terrible. I switched to > djbdns as soon as I found out about it and was happy with a test server that > I setup. It is a bit of a hassle to get up and running, but when it is > finally setup properly you don't have to touch it at all, period. I have been > running djbdns for well over a year, more like over two years and I have not > had to touch it even once in that time. I have a perl script that updates the > data files from a MySQL database. I also have a CGI interface to the db, so I > can add/edit/delete dns records thru my web browser. The djbdns data file > format is very simple and a joy to work with compared to binds. You should > note however that with djbdns, instead of using 2 ips for 2 nameservers I > have to use 2xcache ips, 2xserver ips, and 2x zone xfer ips, and also that > the caches have to be notified of any dns servers for domains that you host - > my perl script takes care of that for me tho. Oh, and another thing... I have > heard of people having problems with djbdns on extremely heavily loaded > servers where queries were getting dropped - in that case I would use a round > robin nat in front of the servers to distribute the load among many dns > servers... my $0.02. > > -Kenny > > On December 12, 2003 12:35 am, Jason Fesler wrote: > > > How does djbdns measure up to bind anyway? Bind works wonderfully > > > for us.. any reasons someone can come up with (other then the beaten > > > to deal security arguments) why a person should change over? > > > > If you are happy with bind; > > If you stay current on bind security problems; > > If you find the ISC to be hoopy froods and DJB to be, well, DJB; > > then focus your attention to more fruitful efforts. > > > > Really. > > > > --jason > > (a die hard djbdns user, who fears bind to death, but not an evangelist) > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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